Kunda: Schools need expansion

POPULATION growth is not being seriously addressed by the government in national planning, Chimbu provincial administrator Joe Kunda says.
He said this last Wednesday during the Grade 10 and eighth Grade 12 graduation at Kerowagi Secondary School.
Kunda said many universities and tertiary institutions established a long time no longer had enough space to accommodate the high number of students enrolling every year.
He said it indicated the rapid population growth in the country was not being taken into consideration.
He said the challenge now was for the government to create more space in universities and tertiary institutions.
“If the concerned authorities can’t create space, then the students are only wasting their time,” Kunda said.  
He said there must be enough educational infrastructure development to cater for the growing student population.
He urged the students to set a target in life and work hard in school to achieve it.
Kunda said the education secretary Dr Musawe Sinebare was a teacher but he pursued further studies until he obtained his doctorate at the University of Wollongong, Australia in 1999.

He said Sinebare was a role model and urged the students to follow in his footsteps and “become somebody”.
He appealed to parents to save their money and to spend it wisely to make sure their children received a good education.
Kunda said the national government would provide free education for elementary to Grade 10 next year and subsidise 75% of fees for grades 11 and 12.
He told parents and guardians they would not be spending as much money as in the past to educate their children.
He said if students could not continue their education in the formal school system, there were informal sectors available for them to continue their education.

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